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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire thread sums up why there are so many whiny, ill equipped adults (both male and female)... some of the parents on here coddle their kids preventing them from properly developing and becoming regular adults... kids like to wrestle, both boys and girls. Nothing wrong with letting them do it as long as it's safe.[/quote]

Where's the line between roughhousing and trying to solve problems with violence?

Sometimes it's very thin-to-nonexistent.[/quote]

Apparently someone studied this and adult women who didn't grow up with brothers aren't able to distinguish between real and play fighting. The rest of us (men and women with brothers) are able to tell a lot more accurately.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/growing-friendships/201506/do-boys-need-rough-and-tumble-play[/quote]

I grew up with only a sister and have two boys same age as the OP. It’s not a hard concept to distinguish between rough and tumble play and true fighting. If one is coming at the other in anger, that’s not rough and tumble play and you put a stop to it.

Rough and tumble play is seen across mammalian species. It’s normal! If I had boys that didn’t ever want to do it I would think that is strange. [/quote]

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